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For the first time, New Market property owners are talking about offers from a company that wants to buy their land for a proposed rail facility...The company has the option to acquire the land through eminent domain if property owners refuse to sell.
The Democrats' proposed national health insurance plan would dictate medications, treatments and mental health services; determine coverages individuals are allowed to have; and operate with real-time access to personal bank accounts, according to a new analysis. And it's worse, a critic said, than China's mandatory one-child policy. "In the same way that the bill pushes elderly or the sick toward euthanasia, it is a pill that would cause economic suicide," said Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel. "It's a euthanasia bill for America."
President Barack Obama's public approval rating has plummeted faster than President Jimmy Carter’s, reports RealClearPolitics in its review of Gallup polling. Carter first polled at a 66 percent approval rating, dipping to 54 percent by September. Meanwhile, Obama has already tumbled down to 52 percent approval rating at the end of July, according to the latest Gallup survey.
Economist Anna Schwartz says President Obama shouldn’t reappoint Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve Chairman. Bernanke has mishandled the financial crisis, argues Schwartz, who co-authored seminal works with Nobel laureate Milton Friedman. “I am certain that there are economists whose reputations for outstanding academic work in monetary policy are every bit as distinguished as Mr. Bernanke’s, and who have good judgment and experience within the Federal Reserve System,” she writes in The New York Times. “President Obama should choose one of them.” Schwartz faults Bernanke for the Fed’s massive easing program.
While the Patriot (Sovereign-Citizen) and Militia communities has been focused on National Level Exercise 2009 (NLE 09), the far more upsetting “Vibrant Response 2009” exercise is being held right now at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
So now America sleeps on the ramifications of the Obama July 27 2009 doctrine, which issues an historic presidential decree saying that American consumers should consume less and the Chinese consume more. Before reading this commentary, you must first read our news coverage our news coverage and my early morning commentary. I have isolated 10 events that are likely to follow if the Obama doctrine actually comes to pass. It is by no means an exhaustive list. I think it highly likely that the doctrine will become a reality – firstly, because the previous system was always flawed for the long term and secondly, if the Americans were to continue to consume as before, they would find the Chinese will impose the Obama doctrine on them by restricting the amount of money available for US markets.
Even when their profits dried up and they turned to taxpayers to stay afloat, the nation's biggest banks kept paying huge bonuses. But much of the money went not to top executives, but to star traders and salesmen, even as the economy battled through the worst recession in a generation.
Money misdirected towards new cars, when the old ones are fine, is money that will not be available for investment in other sectors of the economy, where it would naturally flow. It is Obama solidifying the vote of the financially unsophiticated--while he props up the union infiltrated auto industry--all the while distorting the natural flow of the economy.
Drudge Report one liner: The government plans big revisions to historical economic data... Developing... Traditionally changes to economic data have been politically driven, including the change in focus from CPI to "core" CPI and from GNP to GDP. "Big revisions" in an activist government like Obama's is not a good sign.
I dare you to use your computer to go to Cars.gov after viewing this Glen Beck clip. WARNING: Do not go to cars.gov until you see this clip.
The upside down U.S. flag is an official signal of distress. It is not meant to be, and is not officially recognized as any type of disrespect when so displayed for the right reasons. Here is the relevant part of the US Code of Laws regarding how to fly the flag when in distress:
On July 18, 2009, another Trilateral Commission member has been nominated to a strategic post in the Obama administration, bringing the total number of Obama’s Trilateral appointees to twelve.
"Those soldiers will have to be brought back, and those bases will have to be shut down. So that means a lot of soldiers and no economy, no domestic economy to integrate them into." Dmitry Orlov
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one Profession to dissolve the Financial Arrangements which have connected them with Medicare, Medicaid, assorted Health Maintenance Organizations, and diverse Third Party Payers..."
Net neutrality took center
stage again when several House members introduced a bill
intended to preserve the open nature of the Web by asking the Federal
Communications Commission to keep a watchful eye on Internet service
providers.
Net neutrality took center
stage again when several House members introduced a bill
intended to preserve the open nature of the Web by asking the Federal
Communications Commission to keep a watchful eye on Internet service
providers.
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For Skype, the line could be going dead.
At issue is a key piece of software code licensed to Skype by a company called Joltid. For months, Joltid and Skype have been scrapping over the legal rights to the code – and now, the battle has gotten serious enough that eBay, which owns Skype, is getting worried. If Skype loses the right to the software code, “Skype’s business as currently conducted would likely not be possible,” eBay said in a quarterly filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Under even the most dire conditions, there is a gold standard when it
comes to applying the rule of law. It was set 65 years ago by a former
attorney general of the United States. At issue today is whether the
current attorney general will uphold that standard.
A look at mass protests during the past 500 years reveals surprising clues. [When a socialist wakes up and smells the coffee it becomes time to manipulate the situation to ... more of the same control.]
Hale, in his July 8 request, said there was “an urgent operational need for the capability to strike hard and deeply buried targets in high-threat environments,” and top commanders of U.S. forces in Asia and the Middle East...
What this means is that if people do not need the products and services of the banks and corporations, rather than let them die, we are going to use government and central banks to simply take money from people to keep a bank or corporation alive...
Anyone harboring doubts that the institutional Church is riding shotgun for the system, even regarding heinous sin like torture, should be chastened by the results of a recent survey by the Pew Research Center.
The imbalances that caused the current recession have actually worsened. We are now in an even deeper hole than when the crisis began. Rather than wrapping up a recession, we are actually sinking into a depression...
In the interview, Sibel says that the US maintained 'intimate relations' with Bin Laden, and the Taliban, "all the way until that day of September 11."
The reality is that AIG seems to have been running something akin to a shell game of massive proportions. Its shell game version took the form of selling insurance and assigning the resultant risks among its 71 different North American insurance companies
"He basically predicted everything that has been happening in the US over the last five or six years, basically making the comparison between the US and Russia, demonstrating the collapse of Russia and the US are one in the same thing"...
The big bankers know that their banks would be insolvent without Federal Reserve bailouts, Treasury Department bailouts, and smoke-and-mirrors accounting.
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, who is wired into the cabinet of "Bibi" Netanyahu, warns that if Iran's nuclear program is not aborted by December, Israel will strike to obliterate it.
In other words, the headline extended claims number of 6,416,250 is off by more than 2.6 million. And one also needs to add in another 352,000 from various state programs. The chart shows the exhaustion rate.
